What's this development?

[Tetra84]

So one of my clowns started developing this the last couple of days ago, Yesterday it looked like a slightly fuzzy slightly raised area, today it has some more developed dots in the center, but not as sharp and granular (Salt like) that i'm told Ich looks like, but I can't be for certain. It don't seem bothered by it however, still eats alot and actively swims all over. Should I take the wait and see approach, or put them into a hospital tank now?

I also have 5 other fish in the tank, all of which were quarantined for a month before introduction to my display. These areas on my clowns only started to develop when I introduced the others to my tank a few days ago (they still appear healthy), after their QT period. They didn't show any signs of disease and ate well the entire time.

You think it's just bacterial/stress related? or something worse?

 

[snorvich]

What is your quarantine protocol?

 

[JMLewis]

Looks like ich to me and its soon to fall off. I'd get it out and restart quarentine before that happens so your other fish are hopefully not affected. If your lucky.

 

[Tetra84]

What is your quarantine protocol?

Well for the clowns (which I got first) they were put in hypo treatment several months ago (preemptively, they never showed any signs of disease from the start either) for a month then transferred to the display where they were by themselves for about a month, I recently added 3 more fish that were in quarantine just for observation for the same length of time (1 month) none showed any signs of disease, and were transferred to the display 3 days ago.

If I qt again, I'll probably have to pull everyone out to be sure.. I just wasn't sure I wanted to stress them out with hypo or copper if it weren't a necessity. Especially if I wasn't absolutely positive it was ich to begin with.

How big are ich spores anyway? Are they uniform salt size and texture? if that's the case, it doesn't look quite like that. I don't see anything like that around the gills, which is where I would have thought they would be to begin with..

 

[MrTuskfish]

Is all that reddish area on the fish's side (on both sides of the white bar) true color, or a bad pic?

 

[snorvich]

I do not trust hypo as a quarantine protocol. Unless rigorously monitored and tested frequently, if SG exceeds 1.009 the clock restarts.

 

[kallan]

Has is her appetite? Sometimes just feeding everyone a good diet will boost their immune system enough to fight off a lot of ailments. When my clown started hosting the anemone she would get a white area/spot from contact with the anemone, maybe.

 

[Tetra84]

Is all that reddish area on the fish's side (on both sides of the white bar) true color, or a bad pic?

It's a bad picture.. it was tough to even get that one, they don't sit still to get a good focused shot. Color appears normal.

 

[Tetra84]

I do not trust hypo as a quarantine protocol. Unless rigorously monitored and tested frequently, if SG exceeds 1.009 the clock restarts.

I was very careful to check every day during the treatment for my clowns at the beginning. With a calibrated refractometer, I kept it at 1.009 on the nose. But like I said, before I only observed the health of the other 3 additions for a month, all appeared well with them so I didn't do hypo or copper or anything other than 1 week of Prazipro for them (and the Clowns after their hypo).

 

[Tetra84]

Has is her appetite? Sometimes just feeding everyone a good diet will boost their immune system enough to fight off a lot of ailments. When my clown started hosting the anemone she would get a white area/spot from contact with the anemone, maybe.

Everyone is eating very well, some are picky about pellet food (not the clowns, they love everything), but I also feed both dried, and frozen mysis, as well as live copepods and rotifers, every evening. Anything else I could perhaps feed out to help? The fuzzy area with the spots seems a bit smaller today and less noticeable, but its still slightly whitish and raised, the fuzzy dots are gone - they only appeared for a day.

From what i've read, Trophont's appear on fish for several days before dropping off.. makes me think even more that might not have been it.

Maybe try a FW dip?

 

[snorvich]

FW dip does nothing for cryptocaryon irritans. Visible signs on a fish are not a requirement for cryptocaryon irritans being in your tank.